Technology in the School

The Graham Hospital School of Nursing Technology Committee was formed in January of 2005 to meet the growing need for electronic services to support the curriculum and to assist faculty, students and staff. In 2006, it was approved by the Faculty Organization as a standing committee.

The mission of the SON Technology Committee is to promote the appropriate integration of technology into areas of instruction, student services and school administration.

Graham Hospital School of Nursing supports the curriculum with the latest technology for use by faculty, staff and students. There is a 15 workstation computer lab available 24/7 for students. The lab is staffed to help students with technology needs from 7:00am-3:30pm Monday- Fridays. The School also has a cart of 22 laptops for use in classrooms and other on-campus locations that have a variety of curriculum based software, access to the hospital network, as well as high-speed Internet access. Many of the GHSON classes utilize simulation technology as described here: Graham Hospital School of Nursing – Simulation. The School utilizes social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest to promote professional networking opportunities and updates for students. In May 2014, GHSON was awarded a National Library of Medicine Greater Midwest Region grant to purchase iPads for use in the Community Nursing course. These will be tested and evaluated for possible use in other courses.

Technology Committee Representatives

Representatives to the School of Nursing Technology Committee 2018-2019

Administrative: Susan Livingston

Faculty: Lisa Burch, Mary Ellen Simpson

Students: Taylor Karr, Dustin Cox

Library: Michelle Quinones

Technology Coordinator: Lynette Murphy

Information Services: John Lovell, Randy Williams

Goals

Technology Committee Goals 2019-2020

The new School of Nursing Director will be oriented to his/her equipment and the existing technologies within the School, as well as join the Technology Committee.

Selected laptops and desktops in the School will be updated.

An up-to-date and sustainable program will be investigated for the admissions, recruitment and financial aid functions.

Steps will be taken to begin updating the Adult Simulation Lab AV equipment.

Bradfield’s will assess the need for AV equipment upgrades in the Pediatric and OB Simulation Labs.

The Partest Testing Online pilot will be analyzed and recommendations made.

All nursing courses will include a Blackboard Ultra component.

Potential use of Collaborate, Blackboard’s free web conferencing system, will be investigated.

Recommended Websites

Technology in Education Websites Recommended by the SON Technology Committee

Hot Potatoes:http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ From Half-Baked Software, The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web

NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-higher-education-edition/ This “is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 12th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education.”

Puzzlemaker: Discovery Education http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ Application that creates a variety of puzzle formats from your own word list for free. Useful for Blackboard and other online learning.